Well along with a few minor mishaps, I have learned two very important things over the past few weeks.
1. Clean between your child’s toes, even if they don’t want you to. About a week ago Dan noticed a “pink thing” between Evie’s toes and I fully expected it to come out when we gave her a bath. However a few days later she was sleeping and I happened to get a closer look at her feet and decided to look between her toes. For a few minutes I was worried that there was some horrible kind of athlete’s foot growing in there – there was what appeared to be white fungus with pink spots near the skin (which were sores in my worried mind)! However, on further inspection I discovered that it was … sock lint. Imagine having 6 weeks of sock lint between your toes – pretty gross. So now I regularly clean them with a Q-tip
2. Don’t trim nails in poor lighting. Yes, I pinched Evelyn’s thumb with the nail clippers yesterday. Poor girl! 
Dan caught a cold and gave it to her, so I have also learned how to use a nasal aspirator. She does not like it one bit. But if I don’t do it she is all stuffed up and has a hard time nursing. Also we are trying to introduce her to bottles for when I am back at work. Sometimes she is quite happy to have them, other times she is so worked up that she doesn’t give them a chance. We’re really hoping it will get better closer to July.
Yesterday was my mother’s birthday so Dan and I went out to Chalet BBQ as a way to remember her. She was a fan of roast chicken and we would often go to Swiss Chalet together.
It’s hot and muggy right now and it’s hard to get motivated to do anything. It looks like the next few weeks before I go back to work will be quite busy, though. I’m hoping we can all go to Jean Talon market before I start work again.
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